The governments of Norway, Kuwait, China and Singapore have lost 3.4 billion pounds ($5 billion) on BP Plc’s share slide since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill started in April, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Kuwait Investment Authority, the emirate’s sovereign wealth fund, said it hasn’t made any changes to its investment strategy in Europe, denying a report that it plans to scale back investment in the euro region.

In the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer in the German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces in the Libyan port city of Benghazi when he received a farewell letter from his mother, Magda Goebbels -- the wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.